AIRCRAFT CAPACITY UTILIZATION - DOMESTIC PASSENGERS AND FREIGHT

Aircraft load factors are used to measure aircraft in-flight capacity utilization.

AIR FARES AND PASSENGER VOLUME FOR THE TOP FIVE MAJOR SHORT ROUTES

NOTE: Blue hatched portion of bar = lowest average fare...

AIR FARES AND PASSENGER VOLUME FOR THE TOP FIVE MAJOR LONG ROUTES

NOTE: Blue hatched portion of bar = lowest average fare...

Transportation Indicators

NOTE: The final issue of this report was December 2002. These reports are provided as a historical reference. A minimal number of indicators are being updated in the White House Economic Statistics Briefing Room.

Due to quality...

U.S. CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS

All 2000 data are preliminary.

MMTC = million metric tons of carbon

Tons of carbon can be converted to tons of carbon dioxide by multiplying by 3.667...

TRANSPORTATION ENERGY USE PER DOLLAR OF GDP

BTU - British Thermal Unit

The average heat content of motor gasoline is 129,024 BTU per gallon...

TRANSPORTATION ENERGY USE

Transportation accounts for about 28 percent of U.S. energy consumption. Petroleum accounts for nearly all (about 97 percent) of the transportation...

CRUDE OIL AND PETROLEUM PRODUCTS SPILLS IN U.S. WATERS

NOTE: The spike in 1990 was caused by one tanker spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

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AVERAGE MOTOR VEHICLE MILES PER GALLON

a Includes motorcycles through 1989.

Since 1979, the average fuel rate of passenger cars, vans, pickup trucks, and sport utility vehicles have had an upward trend. In...

AIR POLLUTANT EMISSIONS FROM TRANSPORTATION

Despite rapid growth in vehicle use over the past two decades, emissions of...